Tag: Manual Removal of Butler Miner malicious program

Butler Miner Utilizes 90% of the CPU resources…Read the full article…

Butler Miner is a cryptocurrency miner program which aims to utilize the CPU and GPU resources of the attacked computer system. The malware program eats entire resources to mine for cryptocurrency mainly Monero coins. Users are generally not aware of the happenings on their PC as keeps its identity hidden. The presence of Butler Miner program could result in sluggish system performance, applications may stuck at times and also affect the hardware.

Butler Miner virus is generally distributed through spam mail attachments that appears to be from legitimate source containing convincing subjects. But as user opens the attached documents, it starts downloading the payloads of the malware and installs it. There are other social engineering methods through which your computer can get this infection like: updating software programs from fake links or websites, downloading freeware and playing online games. Once installed, it does lots of changes to the system and adds files to various locations on the PC. It then connects to the mining pool of cryptocurrency, it may use XMRig which then runs the script to mine for the coins. Butler Miner program drops code to auto-launch along with the start of the windows and overloads the CPU for its mining process. User may notice “explorer.exe” process running under task manager window which assist the mining process by consuming the CPU resources. Along with that, you can see an application window called “mgdisk” opening that appears as below:

Being a Trojan threat, Butler Miner can also be used to steal private and confidential data stored on the system and also execute other malicious tasks without the consent of users. Thus, it is advised to remove Butler Miner along with its other associated files from the computer to ensure complete removal.

Treanding News

A new Trojan threat has been discovered by the security experts that targets the popular instant messaging apps on Android phones. The threat could invade secretly inside the devices and steal all the personal information that are typed while making any conversation.

Here are few tips to keep your Android secure and prevent your data from being tracked and misused by any third party app or malware…Read More

Google had removed over 700,000 malicious Android apps from Google Play Store in 2017 as they found them to be violating the norms and hampering the security. Along with that over 100,000 developer accounts were taken down who tried to create multiple accounts and publish thousands of malicious apps.

Another terrifying Ransomware-Rapid Ransomware

Ransomware are all have the same purpose to encrypt data on the victim’s PC and demand ransom to be paid in order to unlock the files. But Rapid Ransomware is slightly different as it stays active on the system even after its first encryption been done. And further keeps on encrypting any new files created by the user.

Watch out for the new malware named as “Lebal” that spreads through phishing emails

The Lebal malware was detected in the very first week of january 2018, when the researchers found more than 300 phishing emails. The emails were targeting big companies and organizations to spread the “Legal malware” onto their systems.

Today’s Caution Message

If your PC's or MAC screen is locked and ask you to pay for getting access to it then it is a Ransomware threat.
Here are some quick actions you can do :

Quickly Backup your Data so that if encryption happens you can recover them later on.

Then try shutting down your PC, if something restricts you to do so, then ignore the message and quickly press the Power button.

Do not format your Drives or PC before you haven’t kept the backup of your Data. Because there are DATA RECOVERY TOOLS available which can help to recover them.

Quickly Scan Your PC to Detect any Suspicious threat

Quickly Back Up Your Data

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